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News Release from: Advantest (Europe) | Subject: R3860
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 29 January 2002
Flexible RF component analyser claims
speed record
New from Advantest is the R3860 RF component analyser, which claims the world's fastest measuring speed of 10us/point.
New from Advantest is the R3860 RF component analyser, for which it claims the world's fastest measuring speed of 10us/point This instrument is the first offering from Advantest's new lineup of test equipment based on the company's novel Wizard of Module Test (WMT) architecture
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 11 May 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Previously, whenever a company needed to perform a new type of testing, switch to the manufacturing of a new device, or adapt to improvements in a device's functions or performance, it needed to invest in new test equipment.
Thanks to the R3860's WMT architecture, however, once a company purchases its initial system, users will be able to simply add on the functions needed for new types of testing.
The foundation of the WMT architecture is a common platform that serves as the instrument's external frame.
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This platform contains a maximum of 20 slots into which various combinations of panel-shaped modules - containing functions such as signal generators and circuitry for voltage source current measurement - can be inserted.
Advantest is confident that this new architecture will provide the flexibility to respond to the rising demand for enhanced measuring instrument functions and performance resulting from the rapid evolution in RF components.
By simply switching or expanding these modules, engineers and operators will now be able to get the testing functions and performance they need, when they need it, and with a minimum amount of investment.
Leveraging their expertise in high-speed signal processing and high-speed settling times, Advantest engineers have succeeded in giving the R3860 the world's fastest sweep time of 10us/point (a ten-fold improvement over the company's previous offering).
Along with a measurable frequency range of 300kHz to 8GHz, the R3860 also has a wide array of analysis capabilities such as impedance conversion, deletion of the circuitry that connects to the DUT, matching circuitry, analysis of balanced devices, and time domain analysis.
The R3860 also enables easy characterisation of increasingly complex RF components such as differential input/output circuitry and front-end modules.
This instrument is particularly well suited for the measurement of balanced multiport devices because it can come with up to four built-in test ports and can further be expanded to offer a maximum of twelve ports when using an external test adapter.
When interfaced with a GPIB or LAN, the R3860 also has the data management and remote control capabilities that were available in Advantest's previous product offering.
In addition to its many testing features, the R3860 was also designed to increase the operator's productivity.
The R3860 uses a 12.1in LCD colour display that comes with a detachable touch screen and allows easy operation without having to connect it to a separate computer.
This display can be split into a maximum of 16 separate windows, which enables users to simultaneously observe up to 32 different measurement results.
The advantage of the detachable touch screen is that it can be placed in the spot that makes operating the instrument the easiest - a feature that can be extremely useful when the R3860 is used within an automated component handler.
Furthermore, to ensure that test programs can be developed quickly and easily, the R3860 comes with easy-to-use Visual Basic software.
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